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This is the website of the Books on the Broad reading group which meets in the famous Blackwell bookshop on Broad Street, Oxford, on the first Monday of each month. We just talk (and write) about books. Each month we choose a book (or maybe two) and then meet for an informal discussion. We keep a written record of our meetings in the form of a Newsletter which contains critical reviews from group members and literary news of the moment. The Books on the Broad Reading Group won the 2007 Penguin-Orange Broadband Readers' Group Prize. Naomi Alderman described her visit to the group in an article in The Guardian newspaper Into the lion's den. She writes "Their self-description sums them up best:
Use the navigation links at the top of this page to discover what we are reading now, what we have read and what we plan to read.
For the list of authors that we have read follow the Newsletter link. In January, 2012, we are reading 'Daughters of Jerusalem' by Charlotte Mendelson. This book will be discussed at our meeting on Monday 6 February, 2012. For the books we plan to read CLICK HERE. updated 18 November, 2011
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Sponsored Links | Announcement The Readers' Voice The Third Convention for Readers and Reading Groups Spring 2012 Organized by: Newsletters
Each month we publish a Newsletter containing reviews of the book or books that we have read during the previous months. They can be downloaded from this website. The Readers' Voice 2010 Wuthering Heights following the Convention Articles from The can be found here.
Authors read by Books on the Broad Reading Group: Chinua AchebeKingsley Amis Martin Amis Paul Auster Pat Barker Julian Barnes Saul Bellow Peter Carey Lewis Carroll Angela Carter Joseph Conrad Anita Desai Kiran Desai Charles Dickens JP Donleavy Ralph Ellison F Scott Fitzgerald E M Forster Elizabeth Grant Graham Greene Kate Grenville Mohsin Hamid Ernest Hemingway Alan Hollinghurst Khaled Hosseini Kazuo Ishiguro Franz Kafka Yasmina Khadra Barbara Kingsolver Matthew Kneale Hanif Kureishi DH Lawrence Harper Lee Stanislaw Lem Doris Lessing Marina Lewycka Amin Malouf Hilary Mantel Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carson McCullers Ian McEwan John McGahern Andrew Miller David Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Irène Némirovsky Jeff Noon Ben Okri Orhan Pamuk Iain Pears Annie Proulx Philip Pullman Ian Rankin Philip Reeve Philip Roth Salman Rushdie Jean-Paul Sartre Gillian Slovo Wesley Stace John Steinbeck Kurt Vonnegut Paul Waters Evelyn Waugh Jeanette Winterson Virginia Wolf Richard Yates Marguerite Yourcenar |
